OpIndia is hiring! click to know more
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

TOPIC

Women Empowerment

Women in the Indian movie and entertainment industry: Still caged inside toxic stereotypes

We are in 2022, but our TV serials still show that the illiterate, cowering, demure, never arguing, dumb bahu is the good bahu and the good daughter, but the educated, smart, assertive, confident woman is the villain, whose only goal in life is to scheme and try to steal the husbands of all the good bahus.

When SheThePeople hailed actor Siddharth as a crusader for women empowerment but he turned out to be anything but ‘feminist icon’

SheThePeople, a media website championing the cause of women, has turned a blind eye to actor Siddharth's sexual innuendos against Saina Nehwal

Priyanka Gandhi, sitting in her ivory tower, thinks providing access to LPG cylinders and toilets is not women empowerment

Priyanka Gandhi recently proclaimed that LPG connections and toilets are not women empowerment.

No, “ch*tiya” Sanjay Raut, comparing roads to women’s cheeks is not ‘respect’

What makes such sexist jibes worse is that the flagbearers of feminism are silent on it because the ones on the receiving end are 'Sanghis' who anyway are considered dispensable.

Mint apologises for a ‘manel’ amid backlash after women speakers who were invited declined the invite

The apology came after many people took to Twitter to raise objection to not having a single woman speaker in the panelists on Banking conclave despite many women being in top managerial positions in leading banks across India.

Kejriwal’s ‘free money’ to ’empower women’ only plays to the patriarchal prejudice against women who are already fighting various battles

If you listen closely Kejriwal's speech while announcing the free money, you can see how it is so deeply rooted in patriarchy, the very system women across India and world are fighting day in and day out.

Rajput women in Rajkot perform ‘Talwar Raas’, ‘liberals’ are triggered: Read about the tradition here

In ‘Talwar Raas’, Rajput women dress up in traditional colourful clothes and perform a traditional dance form using swords, displaying various skills.

Rajasthan: Education Minister says ‘institutions with more women employees report more squabbles’

"If you (women) correct these small things (mistakes), you will always find yourselves ahead of men,” preached the minister.

Malala praises Imran Khan for standing up for girls’ education after Pakistan harboured and nurtured Taliban which shot her in the head

Khan was quoted by BBC as saying, "I think they (Taliban) will allow women to go to schools. The idea that women should not be educated is just not Islamic. It has nothing to do with religion."

Former policymakers need to introspect why rural women were forced to walk miles to fetch water: PM Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi said JJM has been empowering women of the country as they no longer need to walk miles to fetch water

Latest News

Recently Popular